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| author | So, Yerim Kim, Jiyeong Yoon, Jiwon Min, Dongbo |
| author_facet | So, Yerim Kim, Jiyeong Yoon, Jiwon Min, Dongbo |
| contents | Recent Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition (OVAR) methods typically aggregate visual features into a global representation before computing text alignment, a process that obscures local patch information and fine-grained spatio-temporal cues. We propose Similarity Volume Aggregation (SimVA), a framework that constructs a dense 4D spatio-temporal similarity volume from patch-level visual-text similarities. SimVA constructs a spatio-temporal similarity volume over local video tokens and action classes, and employs class sampling to ensure similarity aggregation scalable to large vocabularies. The similarity volume is refined by spatial aggregation, which contextualizes local similarity patterns to improve intra-frame consistency. Motion-aware modulation further injects inter-frame variation cues, highlighting dynamically changing regions. Mamba-based temporal aggregation then models the evolution of class-conditioned similarity patterns across frames. By maintaining dense visual-text correspondence, SimVA effectively transfers CLIP to video action recognition, achieving competitive performance across zero-shot, few-shot, and base-to-novel benchmarks. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Spatio-Temporal Similarity Volume Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition So, Yerim Kim, Jiyeong Yoon, Jiwon Min, Dongbo Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Recent Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition (OVAR) methods typically aggregate visual features into a global representation before computing text alignment, a process that obscures local patch information and fine-grained spatio-temporal cues. We propose Similarity Volume Aggregation (SimVA), a framework that constructs a dense 4D spatio-temporal similarity volume from patch-level visual-text similarities. SimVA constructs a spatio-temporal similarity volume over local video tokens and action classes, and employs class sampling to ensure similarity aggregation scalable to large vocabularies. The similarity volume is refined by spatial aggregation, which contextualizes local similarity patterns to improve intra-frame consistency. Motion-aware modulation further injects inter-frame variation cues, highlighting dynamically changing regions. Mamba-based temporal aggregation then models the evolution of class-conditioned similarity patterns across frames. By maintaining dense visual-text correspondence, SimVA effectively transfers CLIP to video action recognition, achieving competitive performance across zero-shot, few-shot, and base-to-novel benchmarks. |
| title | Spatio-Temporal Similarity Volume Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23288 |